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User identification systems leverage smarter
biometrics technologies
By Milind Borkar. Texas Instruments
 The world is a complex place. Knowing who is
on the other side of the door before opening It is no longer as simple as
looking through a peep hole. It’s much more difficult to authenticate the
identity of someone involved in an online interaction or transaction,
which can occur hundreds of thousands of times a day. Instead of relying
on external objects or memorized codes, biometric systems determine an
identity from the individual’s intrinsic qualities, a fingerprint, the
pattern of an iris, even DNA. MORE (pdf)
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PLS' Universal Emulation Configurator opens up the
full potential of emulation devices from Freescale and STM
 The Universal Emulation Configurator from PLS
is now also available for the emulation devices MPC57xx from Freescale
and SPC57x from STMicroelectronics. With the help of this special tool
for definition of trace and measurement tasks for on-chip emulation
logic, the full potential of the emulation devices can be used without
any limitations for troubleshooting and software quality assurance. The
AURORA interface of the emulation devices is also supported by PLS'
Universal Access Device 3+. READ MORE
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By Interniche Technologies
Source code network protocol licenses can create sticker shock. At
the other end of the scale is free software where you get what you
pay for. One approach that InterNiche is taking to address this
issue is to offer low cost object code versions of our popular
network modules for many 32 bit MCUs. While some flexibility is
given up because source code is not included, the tradeoffs are
lower purchase cost, less technical expertise required and the code
will link to FreeRTOS. Read More (pdf)
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By Guy Agin, Director of Strategy & Business
Development, Red Bend Software
History shows that disruptions in the mobile market can happen when
least expected. Is the current OS duopoly created by Apple and
Google a prime target for disruption? Is an industry with six to
eight competing operating systems (or variants) preferable to an industry
with only two or three dominant platforms? Here is a look at some
of the forces that may be creating the next mobile phone
disruption. Read More
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By Kyle Olive, EEWeb Contributing Author
Assuming you’ve checked out the first two installments of this
series, you may have already gotten a Raspberry Pi and have it
running on Rhaspbian Wheezy. Hopefully, you’ve even started
tinkering with the platform and have created some projects of your
own. While Rhaspbian is an excellent choice for an operating
system, with extensive support and numerous packages, you may want
to use a system that is a bit more customized. Using Rhaspbian, or
some other similar operating system, means that there will probably
be resources on your Raspberry Pi that won’t be utilized. Read More
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Bill Lamie CEO, President & Founder of
Express Logic
Express Logic provides advanced, high quality software solutions
for deeply embedded applications. The company was founded in 1996
by Bill Lamie, who did all of the initial products, including the
company's flagship ThreadX operating system. From there, Express
Logic has been broadening its product portfolio as well as
increasing its market share, due in part to its unique,
royalty-free business model. Read More
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By Wolfgang Heinz-Fischer Head of Marketing
& PR, TQ-Group
Developments and trends on the electronics market are generally
quickly reflected on the electrical medical equipment market. Cost
pressure and time constraints are also heightened here, forcing
companies to focus on their core competencies.This does not usually
include processor cores, which are generally “common” technology
which can be purchased easier and cheaper. In the past, there were
many arguments in favor of using an embedded module, but today it
is becoming increasingly more important to use the same module in
different devices, as was the case previously for processors. Read More
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By John Ralston, Industrial System Architect
Freescale
In most parts of the world there is now legislation which defines
the common minimum requirements for health and safety of work
equipment and machinery. While the legislation covers the complete
system, this paper focuses on the control sub-system. We will
review the impact of the safety requirements on the control
sub-system architecture, and make a proposal based on QorIQ
multicore processors that not only addresses safety, but also helps
maintain or improve machine productivity. Read More (pdf)
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By Reed Hinkel, Ivan Dobes, Joe Folkens. Texas
Instrument
This white paper explores the design of a platform-based system
management controller for x86-based industrial PCs. These systems
have stringent design requirements that exceed those of consumer
and commercial PCs, including the need to support various
industrial interfaces and the ability to operate in extreme
environmental conditions.
Read More (pdf)
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The ARM Cortex-M family of microcontrollers adds several advanced
debugging features that were not available in previous ARM
microcontrollers. The serial wire debug, or SWD, interface provides
access to features of the CoreSight debug infrastructure such as
time-stamping, event tracing and interrupts. This article will
address how to use interrupt logging in the IAR Embedded Workbench
debugger.
Read More (pdf)
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By Reed Hinkel, Ivan Dobes, Joe Folkens. Texas
Instrument
MPLAB Harmony is more than just libraries and middleware, it is a
revolution in Microchip's approach to creating software. It is a
new process for software design, development, testing and
documentation. It consists of a set of peripheral libraries,
drivers, system services, middleware, and third-party code that
will make it easier to create all types of applications. It comes
with examples that show proper abstraction and use of the new
software tools. More and Watch the Video
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While selecting analog switches, it is important to pay attention
to the key parameters such as, switch configuration, on resistance,
supply voltage, bandwidth, on resistance, input voltage and
package. This will insure the switch meets the application's
requirements. Learn from our Product Applications Engineer Thomas
Wolf on how NXP provides high performance analog switches in all
common configurations tailored to answer specific application needs
and ease your design efforts. Watch the video and click
here for even more information
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Embedded
Artists LabTool
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 LabTool is a versatile and powerful
addition to your lab bench. It is an add-on board to LPC-Link 2
based on the LPC4370 LabTool is a logic analyzer, an
oscilloscope, a digital signal generator and so much more. Buy Now
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InstaSPIN™-FOC
enabled C2000 Piccolo LaunchPad
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 Traditional sensorless motor control
development is complicated and unattainable for most developers
due to cost, time and real world application constraints. For
just $66 the new InstaSPIN-FOC™ (field-oriented-control)
LaunchPad enables you to evaluate and begin designing appliance
motors, fans, pumps and more!
Watch the videos and then Buy Now
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i.MX53 Quick Start Board from Freescale
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 This Quick Start board is a $149 open
source development platform. Integrated with an ARM® CortexTM-A8
1 GHz processor, and includes a display controller,
hardware-accelerated graphics, 1080p video decode and 720p encode
as well as numerous connectivity options ideally suited for
applications such as human machine interface in embedded
consumer, industrial and medical markets. Buy Now
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IAR KickStart Kit for TI MSP430FR5739
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 This Kit contains all you need to
design, develop, integrate and test your applications. Includes
on-board USB debug interface, 30 day eval. edition of IAR’s
Workbench, IAR visualSTATE and example applications from IAR
Systems and Texas Instruments. Buy Now
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Microchip
MPLAB Harmony
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 MPLAB® Harmony is a flexible,
abstracted, fully integrated firmware development platform for
PIC32 microcontrollers. It takes key elements of modular and
object oriented design, adds in the flexibility to use a
Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) or work without one and provide
a framework of software modules that are easy to use,
configurable for your specific needs, and that work together in
complete harmony. Download Now
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SAM
D20 Xplained Pro
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 The Atmel® Xplained Pro boards provide
everything you need to start designing new microcontroller-
applications in minutes: Easy to connect through an embedded
debugger, Easy to develop with the boards are automatically
recognized by the Atmel Studio 6 integrated development platform.
Easy to extend hardware extension boards provide access to all
functionality of the MCU. Buy Now
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Small footprint embedded TCP Library from
Interniche
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 These Embedded Libraries are the
link-time equivalent of the battle-proven TCP/IP source-code products
that have been shipped in hundreds of millions of products
worldwide. They come pre-compiled with a choice of
industry-leading tool chains, they include an RTOS, example
programs, complete documentation and can be configured to fit
your needs. Buy Now
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NXP I2C Fm+ Development Board Kit
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 The Fm+ Development Kit is intended
for several different tasks; Explore the I 2sup>C-Bus,
Run demonstrations of NXP’s I 2C Fm+ Slaves and Bus
Controllers, Develop I 2C Hardware and Expand this kit
with add-on I 2C Daughter Cards. Buy Now
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Renesas’
Power of Two just got better with Free Tools from IAR
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 New applicants who qualify for The
Power of Two program can now get one free license seat for IAR
Embedded Workbench, the popular C/C++ compiler and debugger tool
suite. In addition Micrium has added µC/GUI to "The Power of
Two" promotion, a universal graphical software for embedded
applications including Touch Screen support! . Qualify Now
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Microchip
PIC32MZ Embedded Connectivity Starter Kit with Crypto Engine
#DM320006-C
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 This connectivity kit provides the
easiest and lowest cost way to experience the high performance
and advanced peripherals integrated in the PIC32MZ Embedded
Connectivity MCUs. Buy Now
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Sometimes
You Don’t Need the Source Code
 It's always great to have the source code
but the flexibility of being able to trace, modify and enhance your
protocol code it isn't always necessary. If you trust the company
providing a pre-ported, pre-compiled and tested object library, then
the cost savings and simpler license makes your decision to choose
InterNiche's Embedded Libraries an easy one.
Download a network demo Now
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Your
Gateway to the Cloud. Blaze your trail onto the IoT with Tiva™ C Series
TM4C129x MCUs, industry's first Cortex™-M4 with Ethernet MAC+PHY
 Tiva C Series TM4C129x MCUs, with integrated
MAC+PHY offer an unprecedented number of simultaneous connectivity
options, as well as on-chip data protection and LCD controller. Get
started evaluating Tiva TM4C129x MCUs with the available Tiva
DK-TM4C129X Connected Development Kit, which utilizes the on-chip
Ethernet MAC+PHY. The TM4C129x MCUs are built upon the strong TivaWare™
software foundation with more than 50 accompanying software application
examples. Order Now
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A
TQMa53 module with a Freescale i.MX53 can save you design time and
money
 TQ embedded modules:
• Are the smallest in the industry, without compromising quality and
reliability
• Bring out all the processor signals to the Tyco connectors
• Can reduce development time by as much as 12 months
The TQMa53 module comes with a Freescale i.MX53 (ARM® Cortex™-A8), is
ideal for a broad range of applications in the consumer, automotive,
medical and industrial markets and supports Linux and QNX operating
systems. Android is available on request. The full-function STKa53-AA
Starter Kit is an easy and inexpensive way to test and evaluate the
TQMa53 module. Order Now
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